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Presidential Retribution (Executive Watch)

Trump's Federal Housing Finance Chief Abused His Office to Dig Up False Accusations Against Fed Governor to Fire Her
Donald Trump asked Federal Housing Finance Agency head Bill Pulte to abuse his power by digging up accusations against Federal Reserve Governor Lisa…
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Robert Tracinski
Pete Hegseth Polices the U.S. Military to Ensure Political Loyalty to … Charlie Kirk!
The Trump administration is already policing the political ideas of foreigners applying for visas to the United States, blocking entry for those who…
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Robert Tracinski
Trump Uses Charlie Kirk's Assassination to Threaten a Crackdown on His Political Opponents
Even before we know who killed conservative activist Charlie Kirk and why, Donald Trump is using his death as an excuse to make Trump’s own critics…
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Robert Tracinski
Did the FBI Alert a Pro-Trump Media Organ of its Raid on John Bolton to Send a Message to Trump's Critics?
Donald Trump likes to deflect scrutiny of his own misconduct by accusing others of the same crimes—and now he can use his office to launch…
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Robert Tracinski
Federal Housing Chief Abuses His Office to Dig Up Dirt on a Federal Reserve Governor Refusing to Obey Trump to Justify Firing Her
The president can only fire the heads of independent agencies “for cause”—for actual, substantial misconduct in office. The Supreme Court has already…
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Robert Tracinski
Trump's Commerce Department Threatens to Seize Harvard’s Patents that it Claims the University Derived from Federally Funded Research
Donald Trump is abusing every tool of the vast power of the federal government in his attempt to make the universities personally subservient to him.
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Robert Tracinski
Trump's Allies in Congress Push For an Investigation Into Former Special Counsel Jack Smith to Help the President Carry Out His Retribution…
Donald Trump has promised retribution against his political opponents, and now his congressional allies are helping him deliver it, pushing for an…
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Robert Tracinski
Trump's Illicit Threat to Jail Obama Is Meant to Rally His Supporters Around Bogus Prosecutions of Political Opponents
Having claimed absolute immunity from criminal prosecution for himself, Donald Trump is now openly fantasizing about arresting and jailing former…
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Robert Tracinski
Trump Abruptly Fires Former FBI Director James Comey's Daughter, a Federal Prosecutor Who Worked on Epstein-Related Cases
Trump’s appointees have stoked expectations that they will release information about Jeffrey Epstein—a notorious abuser and procurer of underage…
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Robert Tracinski
Trump Digs Into Schiff's Financial Records and Threatens to Prosecute the Senator on Dubious Grounds as Payback for Impeachment
Donald Trump has promised retaliation against his political opponents, and one of his chief targets is Sen.
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Robert Tracinski
The Administration's War on Civil Service Protections Is Continuing Unabated in a Bid to Stack Executive Agencies with Trump Puppets
One of the triumphs of late 19th-century politics was the reform of the civil service to eliminate the politicized “spoils system” and establish…
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Robert Tracinski
Trump Threatens to Denaturalize Longtime Critic Rosie O'Donnell, a Native-Born U.S. Citizen
One of the rules of a free society is that citizens decide who their leaders are; the leaders do not arbitrarily decide based on whim who is or isn’t a…
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Robert Tracinski
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